Number 9

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

13times drawn · chance expected 10 +1.19σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 69% for any number

7.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

22longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, +1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.8 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 5 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 9 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest8 · chance 7.0
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.9
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 26 40 4 15 28

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-05	13	1st	9 10 33 40
2026-06-06	8	2nd	2 9 14 23
2026-04-11	9	1st	9 15 23 40
2026-02-07	10	1st	9 21 23 27

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 9 is drawn with probability 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.